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Released
1942 · FILM

Ace in the Hole

Directed by
Runtime
7 min
AnimationComedy

Synopsis

Woody Woodpecker works as a stable boy at a facility located on an airfield. The constant sound of airplanes overhead intensifies his desire to fly. "I want to fly like the birds!" he exclaims. However, the bulldog sergeant in charge of the airfield believes Woody's only suitable task is clipping the horses using an electric clipper. This opinion is further supported when Woody accidentally clips off the sergeant's shirt buttons and a strip of hair from his chin. Despite this, Woody spends his time reading the book *How to Fly a Plane from the Ground Up*. Eventually, he manages to sneak onto a PU-2 aircraft.

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Principal cast & crew: 6

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

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Scored by Darrell Calker

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